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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 583, 11 August 1909, Page 9

Tlie Calcutta "Englishman" States, with regard to the successful importation rf nto and cartridges into Afghanistan and tribal country, through the agency of gun-runners from Muscat, that, a very serious feature of the business is tho appearance of smokeless ammunition among the consignments. Wow small-boro riflAs have been shipped in considcrablo numbers from Europe, and with tliom have come the necessary cartridges. The demand f£>r a better class of tfoapon has been a most aotivo one, and ■ those encagcd in trade have, not failed to moot it. lii future expeditions our troops will havo to meet the enemy far batter equipped for defence than was tho case a fow years ago. If the traffic''continues, the tribes mil in time re-arm themsblves altogether, and they may bo tempted to assume an .aggrcssivo attitnde. Tho guardianship of Border will then- bo .a'very arduous task, ana, it is in view of this contingency that special efforts should be ;mado. to stop gun-running of this kind. If the Home Government could be impressed with the new danger which is slowly but surely developing, along tlio wliola stretch of 1 the Indian frontier boyoud tho Indus they might possibly exort themselves to strengthen tho naval force which has to do patrol duty along the Mekran coast and in tho Gulf of Oman. Now the winter is hero all should .try and re-, gain 1 .. -' ; ; ' The good health'which in summer is hard to . retain, • Don't hurry and sourry, . Above all. don't worry, And with Pills Laxo-Tonio fresh vigour Laxo-Tonio Pills, 10|d. and 1& &L 12j